Adjustable scraper.



N. D. MGGOLLUM.

ADJUSTABLE SGEAPBE.

APPLIUATION FILED SEPT. 16, 1911.

1,032,291 Patented July 9, 1912.

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NORMAN DOUGLAS MGCOLLUM, OF GORE, GEORGIA.

ADJUSTABLE SCRAIPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 16, 1911.

Patented July9,1912.

Serial No. 649,703.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NORMAN D. McCoL- LUM, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Gore, in the county of Chattooga and State ofGeorgia, have invented a new and Improved Adjustable Scraper, of

which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to plows and cultivators, and its object is toprovide a new and improved scraper for attachment to a plow orcultivator, and more especially designed for scraping the ground onopposite sides of the plow point and sweeping it out wardly onto theadjacent rows of plants, hills or the like.

For the purpose mentioned use is made of a bracket bolted to the rearface of the foot or lower end of a plow or cultivator standard, angularclips attached to opposite sides of the bracket and scraper or sweepblades attached to the said clips and forming sidewise extensions of theplow point or shovel.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theviews.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the ad justable scraper as applied;Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same; Fig. 8 is a frontelevation of the same; and Fig. l is a sectional plan View of the same.

On the front A" of the standard or stock A of a plow or cultivator issecured the usual plow point or shovel B by the use of a' bolt C whichextends through a slot A in the foot A to permit of adjusting the plowpoint or shovel B up or down. The bolt 0 also passes through a slot D ina bracket or block D fitted against the rear face of the foot A andadjustably secured thereon in an up and down direction by the said boltC. Bolts E extend sidewise through the bracket or block D and serve toadjustably secure angular clips F to the sides of the bracket or blockD, and the said angular clips F carry adjustable scraper or sweep bladesG extending outwardly from the sides of the plow point or shovel B thusforming extensions thereof.

Each of the angular clips F consists of an attaching member F and asupporting member F the members being arranged at an acute angle, asplainly indicated in Fig.

4. The clip member F is provided with slots F 3 for the passage of thebolts E to permit of adjusting the clips forward or backward on thebracket or block D. The scraper or sweep blades G rest on the attachingmembers F of the clips F and extend with their inner ends under thesides of the plow point or shovel B, and each blade G is mounted toswing on a pivot H carried by the corresponding attaching member F nearthe inner upper end thereof, and each of the said scraper or sweepblades G is secured to the corresponding attaching member F by a bolt Ion the blade Gr and extending through a slot F 4 in the attaching memberF On loosening the bolts I, the blades G can be swung on the pivots H,up or down (see full and dotted lines in Fig. 3), to give more or lessinclination to the lower edges of the blades according to the depth ofthe furrows made by the plow point or shovel B.

By making the parts adjustable in the manner described, the device canbe readily arranged for various kinds of work.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In combination, a plow or cultivator standard, ashovel on .the front lower end of the said standard, a bracket on therear lower end of the said standard and provided with a slot, a bolt forfastening the shovel to the standard and passing through the said slotfor adjustably securing the bracket to the said standard, angular clipshaving slots, bolts extending through the said bracket and the saidslots for adjustably securing the clips to the bracket whereby they maybe moved toward and away from the shovel, and sweep blades adjustablysecured to the said clips and having theirinner edges extending underthe sides of the said shovel.

2. In combination, a plow or cultivator standard, a shovel on the frontlower end of the said standard, a bracket on the rear lower end of thesaid standard and provided with a slot, a bolt for fastening the shovelto the standard and passing through the said slot for adjustablysecuring the bracket to the said standard, angular clips having slots,bolts extending through the said bracket and the said slots foradjustably securing the clips to the bracket, sweep blades having theirinner edges extending under the sides of the said shovel, pivots forname to this specification in the presence pivotally connecting the saidsweep blades of two subscribing Witnesses. to the said clips and boltsextendin through the said suieep blades and through NORMAN DOUGLASMCOOLLUM' 5 slots in the said clips to adjustably secure Witnesses:

the sweep blades to the said clips. CLovls D. RIVERs, In testimonywhereof I have signed my DAN EDWARDS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents-each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. C.

